Whilst you may get a really secure lock, how secure is the bag otherwise? If you can break the zip or put a knife through the bag the lock isn't going to help much if someone really wants to get in the bag.

Doh, down side to playing with as many locks as I do. I said ABUS, was thinking Abloy. They were $80.00 abloy locks that got cut off. anyway if you get the right ABUS, they'll be disk locks too. HArder to open.

AS for the master locks, I think they're starting to make them better.. Locks I bought 2 years ago, I can get in, in under 10 seconds. Stuff I bought last year, takes me about 1 minute. Locks I bought for Maker Faire Detroit's Lock Pick Village this year, 3 to 5 minutes each.

chrisj wrote:Doh, down side to playing with as many locks as I do. I said ABUS, was thinking Abloy. They were $80.00 abloy locks that got cut off. anyway if you get the right ABUS, they'll be disk locks too. HArder to open.

AS for the master locks, I think they're starting to make them better.. Locks I bought 2 years ago, I can get in, in under 10 seconds. Stuff I bought last year, takes me about 1 minute. Locks I bought for Maker Faire Detroit's Lock Pick Village this year, 3 to 5 minutes each.

Funny, I meant Abloy as well. Padlocks... they're my kryptonite. For some reason, I think the spring just screws with my tension technique too much. I can only pick through about a third of my padlock collection. *pout*

After the post by chrisj about his friend having his padlocks cut by the TSA, my initial thought was WTF. However, some quick research into the TSA revealed that this is common practice.

I also came across the information about approved locks you posted. Whilst looking into this further, I was surprised about the number of people complaining about using TSA approved locks and still having them cut.